Battery terminal



G. E. HARPER BATTERY TERMINAL Filed Oct. 9, 192.3

amucm tor Patented Dec. 23, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BATTERY TERMINAL.

Application filed October 9, 1923. Serial No. 667,465.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. HARPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gainesville, in the county of Cooke and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Battery Terminals, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to battery terminals and more particularly to solid terminals; and the object is to provide a simple terminal which will hold the wires securely and which will be held securely on the battery posts and which will always make positive connection and not be impeded by corrosion on the battery posts and which will automatically break away the corrosion while being attached and which can be more readily detached from the posts. Other objects and advantages will be more fully explained in the following description and the invention will be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings which form a part of this application.

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the terminal applied to a post and secured thereon. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan View of a terminal which is a slight variation from the terminal previously shown.

Similar characters of reference are used to indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

The improved terminal has a body 1 provided with a socket member 2 for the connection of the conductor wire3. The wire 3 may be secured in the socket member 3 in the usual manner by pouring the melted soldering material into the socket and retaining the same in position until the soldering material solidifies. The terminal has the usual opening 4: and beyond the opening.

l is a solid'securing member 5 which is perforated transversely for receivinga wedging locking member 6. The perforation in the member 5 is straight on one side and wedge-shaped on the side next to the battery post 4. The securing or locking member 6 has a wedge 7 on one side for engaging the post 10. The wedge or securing meniber is threaded on end 8 and a nut 9 is used to force the wedge 7 against the post 4. When the wedge 7 is being forced against the post 10, the wedge will break through any corrosion that may be on the post 10 and make positive contact with the post. In the construction. shown, it is practical to make the opening 4 larger than usual and by such construction the terminal is more easily removed from the post. The nut 9 is first removed when the terminal is to be removed. The locking member 6 can then be removed or driven out of its bearing. The terminal can then be jarred loose from the post 10 because there will be space enough for moving the terminal laterally, or from side to side.

The terminal may be open, as shown in Fig. 3, as opposed to the solid terminal previously shown. The sides of this variation may be drawn towards each other by the nut. Other variations may be made without departing from my invention.

What I claim, is,"

1. A battery terminal comprising a body member provided with a vertical opening therethrough for a battery post and pro Vided with a transverse horizontal opening therethrough and partly intercepting said vertical opening. one side wall of said horizontal opening being inclined towards one end from said vertical opening outwardly to the surface of said body member, a locking member in said horizontal opening threaded at one end and having an inclined surface adjacent to the inclined wall of said transverse opening to prevent relative rotation thereof and having the opposite surface bearing against the opposite wall of said horizontal opening approximately throughout its entire length, and a nut for forcing said locking member against the battery post and serving to break corrosion from said post.

2. A battery terminal comprising a body member provided with a post opening therethrough fora battery post and a socket for a wire connection, a horizontal opening therethrough inclined on one s'ide, a locking member in said horizontal opening havinw an inclined side adjacent to the inclined side of said opening to prevent rotation of the locking member, and n'ieans -for forcing said locking member against the battery post for making positive connection with and for breaking corrosion from said post, the opposite side of said horizontal opening forming a relatively long bearing for said 10 locking member. v

In testimony whereof, I set my hand. this 6th day of October, 1923.

GEORGE E. HARPER. 

